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Paul Topper Thompson Remembered Relatives for Justice Belfast.Tuesday, April 30, By RFJ CEO Mark Thompson The large crowd in attendance yesterday, in rain and windswept Belfast, for the 25th anniversary of the UDA murder of Paul ‘Topper’ Thompson is testament to the high esteem in which he was held and of how he is fondly […]

The London Jew who gave his life for Ireland during Easter 1916Dermot McEvoy@IrishCentral. New York. Friday, April 26, 2019 One of the more obscure, and tragic, stories of Easter Week concerns Abraham Weeks (sometimes also known as “Wix”), a London Jew on-the-run who found himself in Dublin just as Easter Week was beginning.Weeks was not the first Jew to fight for Irish […]

Congressional delegation trip comes as Irish US relationship is in flux Colm Quinn. Irish Times. Dublin. Thursday, April 25, 2018 As the publication of the Mueller report laid bare, the rot in Washington runs deep. A world of quid-pro-quo backscratching, backroom dealings and deep cynicism won’t surprise anyone but to see it spelled out […]

Newton Emerson. Irish Times.Dublin. Thursday, April 25, 2019 Can Arlene Foster and Michelle O’Neill ever be the Chuckle Sisters, repeating the Chuckle Brothers act of Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness, their predecessors as DUP leader and Sinn Féin deputy leader?The consensus is most definitely not. Foster’s tenure is considered a disaster due to fundamental issues with her character and ability. Rumors abound the party will replace […]

IrishCentral Staff. New York. Thursday, April 18, 2019 Nancy Pelosi and Richard Neal announce new attempt to pass US E3 visa bill for Irish, utilizing unused existing Australian work visasAnother attempt to pass the E3 visa bill, which would allow up to 5,000 work visas a year for Irish applicants to work in America, is to be made House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced in Dublin.Pelosi […]